SLACKERS R US

Sorry this one is so short. I have so much to put on here, but not the time right now.

So I will give you a tease...

We have a Bed

took a trip to St. Louis

Otto and I went to our first Professional Baseball Game

Otto started BACK 2 school

I had my first BIG break for Infant Massage

so stay tuned.....

GO USA! GO USA GO!

So can I just say I Love ♥ Love ♥ Love the Olympics! We went over to my parents house for the "Opening Exercises" as Otto keeps calling them. It was fun to watch it with mom and dad, nothing like dads random comments. :) Otto and I have had a blast watching them together. I am so glad he has this past week off from school it has been a nice treat having him around at night again. But that will soon change as he starts classes back this next Thursday night. I have been sick but I have decided this was a great time to be sick because I "need" to lay around on the couch to get better. So at the same time of me trying getting better for the most part, I am doing my part as an American supporting my country... I am sure they have heard me all the way over there a couple of times... Like the 4x400 men's relay where we beat the French. Then last night when the US girls gymnastics were so close to beating China and we fell off the beam, and then on the floor?!?! OHH it still hurts... We have tried to watch everything from Handball which I never knew existed, to fencing ,which I just don't get.

I think I am really enjoying theses games so much because I was in Beijing in 2005, doing massage and working with the doctors that work with the Olympic athletes. I was over there for about a month and I was able to see so much and all the starting of the construction for the games. How excited Beijing was to have the Olympics there. As you walk around Beijing they had Olympic themes everywhere on the Cities walls. They have art statues with the Olympic colors just in a little inlet type place on a random street. I can only imagine what it is like now. So it is fun when NBC take little tours around the city, showing different places some times I know where it is, so that is fun. While I was there we were able to visit The Beijing Shi Cha Hai Sports School it was the school that Jet Li went to, it was his training school, and so has a lot of their Olympic athletes. This was very hard for me to see. As they have said during the Olympics that they are picked at a very young age. They leave there family as young as 4 years old to come to these schools to train. They might get to see there families once a year, if they are lucky. The school training is extensive, all day long, very little regular school is done. The basic of reading and some other subjects but they work on the sport anywhere from 8 to 12 hours a day.

This school trains for everything.. Ping pong, weight lifting, gymnastics , Tai Chi Quan, Some kinda of Martial Arts with a Sword, and so much more but we were allowed to see the kids ping pong which was a room of like 50 or more tables let me tell you I have a new respect for ping pong. They were insane, it was just very sad to me. Here is this room filled with 150 kids or more and there is no laughing going on the intensity in the eyes of the kids is something I have never seen before. A couple of the guys thought they were good enough to play with the kids but both was beaten by a 6 year old girl. We enjoyed watching that. We went in and saw watched them do the weight lifting for a minute and it was amazing. Got a tour of the medical area where they go to the PT and get worked on. I was in awe that my here is one of the best training facility in the world and my high school really had better stuff then they did. To see the kids laying on the bed who look so tried and just not how kids are supposed to look, no smiles. Then we went into where they were teaching the gymnast. This picture to the right of the little girl in the purple. Oh I was so close of putting her in my back pack and taking her home. We were in there for almost an hour watching and she apparently fell of the bar when she was doing her bar routine and she has to hang there for at least 40 minutes, she was crying no one was there to comfort her, nobody said anything to her just let her hang there and cry... they did nothing and it really broke my heart. She is not going to have a mom to go home to and say I had a hard day they were mean to me. She will just go to her room with 5 other girls and just wake up and do it all over again, and again.

So yes I do feel bad about the US team not getting gold but a part of me is happy that the Chinese got the gold. I have a new respect of what the Chinese actually have to go through even though mine was just a glimpse of there lives. I do feel for them. The pride they have for their country and the dedication they have is like no other I have ever seen.

But I do think the little girl in the black up top was the who beat us, I mean this was 3 years ago. She might be 10 now, umm I mean 16.

My NEW site

Hey just letting everyone know that my new site for infant massage is up and going. I would love some feed back but please make feed back on this blog and not the other blog. I am also working on flyer's and brochures when I am done with those I will try to put them on here for some feed back also. So check it out and tell me what you think--- be honest I can take it!

www.soothingembrace.blogspot.com

Things that make you go... ummm?

OK... It has been a busy week. But I just had to tell you about my TWILIGHT experience. So I went Friday night with some friends to the book release of Stephine Meyers new book in the series of TWILIGHT Breaking Dawn! Let me tell you it is the first time I have ever been to a book release and it wont be the last. I had a blast! I was super sleepy. But soon woke up when I arrived at my friends Kristin's house, I totally felt like I was back in High School. In one room all the husbands were playing Rock band which was very entertaining, I must say! Then the rest of the house was filled with girls, one room was making T-shirts for the night, that had Twilight slogans on it; • My ♥ belongs in Forks • Team Edward • Sexier than you since 1918 • All I want for Christmas is my two fang teeth!

Those are just the ones I remember. No, I did not make a shirt but it sure was fun to watch everyone else be so excited. So we had the man party, t-shirt station, food everywhere, and then we had our friend Sayra who is a hair dresser, fixing every ones hair like they were going to prom! Then all kinda of conversations about what they think the book is going to be about, just CHAOS! That was just at Kristin's house getting ready to go over to Barnes and Noble... I was just in awe I mean all I have heard about @ church is about this book but this is a level of love of a book that I have never experienced!

UNTIL.......

We Got to B&N and the level of love of this book well all I can say is things that make you ummmmm.

Now, Like I said in my last post, I have not even read through the first half of the FIRST book, so I do not know a lot. But what I saw when we arrived, I was speechless and just could do nothing but giggle at everything that was around me.

We walk in and it was like goth Heaven, its like the goth people were so excited to have a "place in the world" But from what I have read.... Edward was not Goth he looked just like everyone else. SO I was kinda confused But I think this one guy was even more confused than I was because he I guess thought that Edward was the Edward from Edward Scissorhands. He looked just like him.

This all was before we even got into the store... We walk OK no we were shoved into the store from the crowd and the first thing I see is this little teenage girl with her dad and she is crying, yes crying! She is begging her dad just to hold the book that he just purchased for her. You could tell by the dads face he was not understand what the fuss was over and was not sure how to handle the whole situation. Then you make it through the doors to see a sea of people all kinda of people. People that are in Prom dresses who umm should not be in prom dress like the lady who looked like she was 60, little girls all dolled up more goth and people like my group in t-shirts. I love to people watch and this was the perfect place to just step back and watch peoples reaction as they got this book. Or in anticipation of getting the book. It was a very long but fun night for me. So I do have to say I am not big into book but I think I am into Book releases, now I only wish there were more Harry Potter books to come out....

One Day @ a time....

Wow! Otto is almost done with his summer session of school. So far he is doing really well. He has a big project due on Monday. So this weekend we will be working on that. Hopefully we will get the last coat of paint on our bed. We are still in the process of repainting our bedroom. That was a fun time let me tell you! I wanted to change the color from yellow to a tan/ brown color. Lets just say over 10 test patches of the wrong color, I finally gave up and now we are having to repaint the whole room back to yellow, but i like this yellow better than the original one. We have just way too many projects going on at once. Its hard with Otto's busy schedule of working and school. This next semester will be not so fun for me. Otto will work until 3 be at school from 4 till 10! But "It shall come to past"!

I am in the process of working on my infant massage classes again. I am way excited. We finally came up with a name for my little company... Soothig Embrace. I wanted something a little more playful and catchy but, soothing embrace says everything about infant massage. As of right now I am working on a blog for it right now. I will let you know when that is up and going.

Tonight I am going with a group of girls that are HUGE Twlight Fans, to the Release Party of the new book. I have only read part of the first book, when Otto and I just go hang out at Barns and Noble. So it will be fun, to go and just hang out. Looks like I will learn more about Twlight tonight or morning I am not sure which it will be since the Release party starts at MIDNIGHT! So we will see how it all goes down....